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Friday, October 29, 2010

Unfortunately the Goodman base is all I have in detail. The obelisk is laying on the side and I do not have a photo of it. The interesting thing is the stone shaped square behind this tombstone. I do not know if it is part of the Goodman plot? I have been told by the Iowa County Genealogical Society when I visited them back in 2003 that a plate map of the cemetery has not been found and I have not taken time to see if it is at the courthouse or the funeral homes in the area have it. It would be a great find if it could be found.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

The photo below is the area were the Given's tombstones are located. As you can see they are in disarray.

﻿There are two other stones for a Hannah and a Harriett as listed in the Titler publications that I have presented in past posts. They might be in the photo above. Click on it and see what you can find. You might have to cut the photo up because I am finding that it looses focus if I make it bigger.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Someone had left some offerings for the tombstone with the surname of Fielder. The tombstone of George and Mary Gilbert is easy to read. Unfortunately some of the other Gilbert stones are in a mess, piled together in a tumble and apparently they have been that way a long time. I will try to dig deeper to see if I cannot get more detail by giving the overall photo I took and then do some editing to bring out the names. The first stone is of the surname Fielder: ﻿ ﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿

The photo below is a grouping of the surname Gilbert from what I can tell. The tall pillar stone has inscription on it probably on all of its sides for I can see some craving on the right and left face of the stone. I do not know if there was any further information on the two sides you cannot see. I did not photograph from that side.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

In retrospect, I wish I had documented this cemetery with more care and tried to follow the rows in order but I did not have time to do so. I can describe the cemetery to you. It rests in a rectangle on an east to west direction. I would say it is an acre in size? It is on a small hill but once you climb it it is relatively flat. The tombstones are in rows going north to south. It is located on a "Y" of two highways and has a fence that encloses it. It is maintained by an unknown entity that mows the grass. A majority of the stones are visible but there are many that are piled into groupings under trees and broken. Apparently they have been that way for awhile based on the publications I found by Lillie and Sanchez. I get the feeling that the trees were not there and have since grown causing the destruction of grave sites and tombstones. There are depressions in the earth in which you can stumble and I believe that they are the unmarked graves.

Things to Ponder!

The header photo is of the Lee Cemetery in Hardin Co., Ohio southeast of Kenton, Ohio.

As of today 8/12/2016 Google has closed down Picasa for Photos. They moved them to Google Photos and Google Photo Archive. If there are any problem with my photos from this blog give me a holler and I will check it out. When posting in Blogger the photos went into Picasa for safekeeping it doesn't work that way at Wordpress. I did not move BJM Cemeteries to Wordpress so this is why I am concerned. So far so Good. Thanks. Let me know if there is a problem with any of the photos. Thanks.

As a member of Find A Grave I have been adding photos and memorials and getting some transferred to me and trying to spend a couple hours each week adding to the website. Scroll to the bottom of this blog and you will find a link to my contributions on Find A Grave.

Here are my tips:

I find Find A Grave is really good for finding tombstones and memorials for those buried in the USA. Canada is making progress in adding to Find A Grave but you also have to go to other websites in your search. These websites are the Canadian Headstones.com, OCFA - Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid, the Canadian Gen Webs Cemetery project are few places to look. Each province may have a way to locate cemeteries. Hopefully I have identified these websites in my posts but be aware they do change their urls.